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We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
by Eliot Pattison, American Thinker: After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be.
We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
Original Article Posted By: Hazymac, 3/26/2025 8:04:46 PM After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be.
We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
After four long years during which our democracy was under constant peril, one might say the November election cured that crisis, at least for now, returning the American voter and American values to center stage. Zealots of the Left, however, continue their tired chorus of accusation and cancellation. It is staggering how blind to election results and deaf to the voices of voters they seem to be.
This Election is a Referendum on Us
We are ceaselessly reminded of the high stakes of the pending election. Pundits and candidates warn of stark consequences for energy policy, taxation, defense budgets, immigration, and reproductive rights. No one speaks of the highest stake, and greatest threat, of this election: the fate of the social compact that binds our nation.
Imagine What It Means to be American
If we were to catalog the attributes of our Founders vital to the creation of our nation, love of liberty and courage would likely top that list. Close behind would be a more subtle quality empowered by liberty, that of imagination. It is imagination and its implicit sense of wonder that drives our quest for knowledge and ultimately human progress. Our Founding Fathers had no template for creating our government; they had to imagine it based on the imperfect experiences of prior republics.
Hamas apologism has taken Australia by storm Once poisonous but marginal views have become all too acceptable since 7 October. Hugo Timms
Hamas apologism has taken Australia by storm Once poisonous but marginal views have become all too acceptable since 7 October. Hugo Timms https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/19/hamas-apologism-has-taken-australia-by-storm/ Since the 7 October pogrom in Israel, it has become increasingly clear that hostility towards Israel is no longer confined to its Islamist enemies. It is increasingly prevalent in Western democracies, too. This has certainly been true in Australia.
The Price of Surrendering Speech By Eliot Pattison
No one was particularly surprised when Vladmir Putin recently won reelection by a landslide. The near universal reaction could be characterized by a roll of the eyes and a sighed “what do you expect, it’s Russia.” We’ve seen this before, after all — it is his fifth term — but there is something new in its significance for us. What’s changed is the newly fragile condition of our own democracy, making the Moscow “election” emphatically relevant to America.
The Price of Surrendering Speech
No one was particularly surprised when Vladmir Putin recently won reelection by a landslide. The near universal reaction could be characterized by a roll of the eyes and a sighed “what do you expect, it’s Russia.” We’ve seen this before, after all -- it is his fifth term -- but there is something new in its significance for us. What’s changed is the newly fragile condition of our own democracy, making the Moscow “election” emphatically relevant to America.
PATTISON: How Technology Undermines Our Self-Evident Truths
Years ago when asked about the emergence of the internet, the polymath author Michael Crichton replied that “personally I think cyberspace means the end of our species.” Crichton had a way of reducing complex challenges to provocative denominators, but his words should give us pause as technology tightens its grip on our lives and artificial intelligence threatens to put that process on steroids.
Inviting Nature Onto The Page
Nature can be a harsh partner for the novelist. Trying to integrate it into a passage or entire plot is a daunting effort that doesn’t always succeed. I don’t refer to snapshots of snow-capped mountains or purple sunsets tacked onto a scene for casual color, but rather the more ambitious weaving of the land and nature into a tale to drive plot, develop character or convey underlying themes.
PATTISON: Time To Choose - Democracy Or Oligarchy?
Is our democracy truly in jeopardy? Our Founders would believe it so, not because of the sharp dissension between parties — they were well acquainted with political vituperation — nor because of our swollen government, though it has reached dimensions that would be unimaginable to them. Their thinking was more penetrating, aimed at the roots of issues.
Flirtation With Evil Will Not End Well for Leftists TikTok’s days may be numbered in the U.S. By Roger Kimball
Has the TikTok Left just jumped the shark? Well, yes. Imagine seizing on Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to the American People” as a revelation to justify your wounded adolescent narcissism and historical ignorance? This past week, a bunch of videos from the Chinese owned data-hoovering and propaganda-peddling app took the meme-world by storm by showering some love on the defunct Islamic terrorist and kicking America in the process.
The New Elite Learning Curve: Descent into Ignorance
Between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War, I lived for several months on kibbutz Hagoshrim, on the border of Israel with Lebanon under the shadow of the Golan Heights. Hagoshrim was referenced in a recent Wall Street Journal article about war preparations along the northern border, which reported that although the nearby town of Kiryat Shmona had been evacuated, the residents of Hagoshrim, the kibbutzniks, had decided not to evacuate but to stay in support of the army.
The Rewarding Duty of the Historical Novelist: Finding the Facts, Then the Truth
Historical novels are unique as a genre. They embody all the challenges and delights of fiction generally but the bones that hold the body of the novel together have to be true to the age of the story. When those bones are given the flesh of an engaging tale the result is a novel that takes the reader closer to our history than most history texts.
PATTISON: We Are Not Our Government. We Are Americans
Everywhere we turn these days we hear about the decline and pending destruction of the traditional American identity. Statues topple, schools and museums surrender to leftist committees, churches close and noble names of the past disappear from public nameplates. The American dream is dead, according to the strident minority who kowtow to social media. But that dream is ours, not theirs, and it is far from dead. We are not defeated. We’re just suffering an identity crisis, and it is not our first.
Baltimore Post-Examiner
The Baltimore Post-Examiner is pleased to introduce an excerpt from Eliot Pattison’s latest book Freedom’s Ghost, to be published by Counterpoint Press this October and available at Amazon.
PATTISON: Politicians Are Ignoring The Major Cause Of Our Republic’s Cultural Decay
Opinion Spencer Platt/Getty Images August 01, 2023 10:47 PM ET Font Size: Recently the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the “National Report Card,” revealed that American 8th grade students, long used as an educational benchmark, scored the lowest grades ever in history. Marks in math and reading were not much better, wiping out three decades of progress for young Americans.
Our Human Rights Wasteland
The U.S. State Department recently released its annual report on human rights. There was nothing to celebrate. It was a testament to the wasteland where human rights advocacy now resides. In page after page the lengthy volume catalogs “allegations” and “reports” of violations of a constantly expanding list of what are characterized as basic rights, with heavy attention to those issues that attract the most attention in social media.
Freedom’s Ghost
As the drumbeat of the American Revolution grows ever closer, Scotsman-turned-American-patriot Duncan McCallum must navigate treacherous cultural and political waters if he’s to secure a fighting chance for the fledgling nation in this gripping installment of the acclaimed Bone Rattler series After narrowly avoiding death in London at th2 e hands of the king’s secret agents, Duncan McCallum returns to colonial America only to discover that his troubles have followed him across the Atlantic.
Historical Fiction: Discover New Truths in the Past
History books are great for sharing a macro-level view of the past, but historical fiction reveals truths about the way people lived in history. We have lost the anchor of our history. Our past has become almost unrecognizable in the public forum as it constantly gets reshaped to fit new political paradigms. In many contexts, history seems more of a marketing tool than a truth. But even before it became a ball tossed between ideologues, history had suffered a slow suffocation in our classrooms.
Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar: Exclusive Excerpt
Take Me Apart Sara Sligar April 28, 2020 Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar is a novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity. When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California.
Historical Fiction: Discover New Truths in the Past
History books are great for sharing a macro-level view of the past, but historical fiction reveals truths about the way people lived in history. We have lost the anchor of our history. Our past has become almost unrecognizable in the public forum as it constantly gets reshaped to fit new political paradigms. In many contexts, history seems more of a marketing tool than a truth. But even before it became a ball tossed between ideologues, history had suffered a slow suffocation in our classrooms.
The King's Beast by Eliot Pattison: New Excerpt
In Eliot Pattison's The King's Beast a simple task to retrieve some artifacts turns into a nightmare of deceit when Duncan McCallum finds himself the target of those obsessed with keeping America under British rule. Read on for a new excerpt of this thrilling historical novel from Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison's Bone Rattler series. Preface The revolution that transformed the Thirteen Colonies into the United States was in many ways one of the great mysteries of human history.
Book Series Binge: Q&A with Joanna Schaffhausen on Ellery Hathaway Series
By Crime HQ March 29, 2020 Join Joanna Schaffhausen for a Q&A about Ellery Hathaway, a police officer with a traumatic past who patrols sleepy Woodbury Massachusetts and works with the FBI to bring serial killers to justice. The Vanishing Season is the first book in the series—read on for an excerpt! Describe the first time you pictured Ellery Hathaway in your head. Ellery Hathaway came into being twenty years ago with the first draft of what would eventually be The Vanishing Season.
The King’s Beast
About Eliot Pattison ELIOT PATTISON is the author of the Inspector Shan series, which includes The Skull Mantra, winner of an Edgar Award and finalist for the Gold Dagger. He is also the author of the five previous titles in the Bone Rattler series, most recently Savage Liberty. Pattison resides in rural Pennsylvania with his wife, son, three horses, and three dogs on a colonial-era farm. Find out more at eliotpattison.com.
7 Unforgettable Books Like 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel
7 Unforgettable Books Like Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel If you love Station Eleven, you won't be able to put down these seven other tales of the apocalypse. Promoted by Open Road Media | By Carolyn Cox | Published Aug 21, 2019 Photo Credit: Featured image from Subterranean Press' cover of "Station Eleven." Zone One By Colson Whitehead Want more great sci-fi and fantasy books?
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Bones Of The Earth: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Mystery' By Eliot Pattison
Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of The Book ‘Bones Of The Earth: An Inspector Shan Tao Yun Mystery’ By Eliot Pattison RedCarpetCrash May 29, 20192019-05-29T03:16:34-05:002019-05-29T13:12:21-05:00 After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can’t shake the suspicion that he has instead witnessed a murder arranged by conspiring officials.
My Chick Bad: Unlikeable Heroines in Crime Fiction
When I started writing They All Fall Down, my intent wasn’t to write an unlikeable character. Miriam, in my mind, was simply a mother… who may have gone too far. What woman, hell, what parent, can’t relate to that? Yelling at the ref during Soccer Saturdays. Sending the kid to the liquor store to buy two soft packs of Newports. Going up to the school to talk to a teacher, crowbar in hand. We all have come short of the glory of the Lord.
Aspects of Police Procedure in the Late Nineteenth Century
Edith Maxwell, author of Charity’s Burden, discusses Massachusetts police procedures she learned while performing research to write the Quaker Midwife Mystery series. My Quaker Midwife Mysteries series begins in 1888 and is set in Amesbury, Massachusetts, in a then-thriving textile mill and carriage factory town in the northeast corner of the state. Midwife Rose Carroll is an amateur sleuth, but of course, Amesbury had a police department whose business it was to solve crimes.
Review | NetGalley
Review by Diane H, Reviewer Last updated on 28 Mar 2019 I Recommend This Book Yes Inspector Shan is assigned an unusual case of potential corruption and murder in Bones of the Earth. What do the execution of a corrupt government contractor, a fatal car accident, and the release of a “hail chaser” have in common? A link to the giant Five Claws dam project in a sacred valley in rural Tibet. The unusual setting within Chinese-controlled Tibet is the best part of Bones of the Earth.
Why Historical Fiction Matters
History comes alive by making its characters come alive. This fundamental premise applies to both novelists and historians, for if we can’t feel engaged with the players on the stage of the past we will inevitably lose interest in their performance. Our texts and classrooms too often pin one-dimensional labels on those actors from prior episodes of the human drama, draping them with resumes of glorious accomplishments and events.
Savage Liberty
The Baltimore Post-Examiner is pleased to present an excerpt from Eliot Pattison’s book Savage Liberty, set during the American Revolutionary War. Booklist described this fifth entry in Pattison’s Bone Rattler series as “a seamless blend of fiction and history that distinguishes this fine series. A timely reminder, as well, of what liberty meant to our forebears.” The book can be purchased at Amazon.
SKELETON GOD by Eliot Pattison
Inspector Shan struggles to separate implausible myth from verifiable fact in probing a murky murder scene. Now working as a constable in a rural Tibetan outpost, Inspector Shan Tao Yun (Soul of the Fire, 2014, etc.) is pressed in to a trip to the mountains when a superstitious woman named Yara bursts into his office with the cry, “The dead are rising!” She drops a set of coral beads covered in blood, which a female prisoner recognizes as the property of a hermit nun.
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